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Quotes About Effort

You can't take a person who's never danced in their lives, and are completely terrible, and turn them into the mirrorball trophy holder. That just doesn't happen.
~ Artem Chigvintsev
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
~ Henry J. Kaiser
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
~ Mason Cooley
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
~ Chuck Close
'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever' was inspired by a combination of my grandson, my son, and myself - all those times when each of us has decided that we're just not going to get into trouble anymore. But it's so hard to be good all of the time!
~ Judith Viorst
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
~ Saint Basil
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.
~ Marian McPartland
Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it.
~ Michael McDonald
While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
~ Bernie Sanders
There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
~ Angela Duckworth
This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
~ Carroll O'Connor
I'm a true believer that you get out of something what you put into it.
~ Jessica Chastain
It takes effort to be a real friend and to find a true friend.
~ Peyton List
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
~ Mariella Frostrup
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.
~ Trent Franks
We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it's what we were born to do.
~ Grace Gealey
It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.
~ Neri Oxman
I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionist, and of course family and friends. It truly is a team effort, both when you are dealing with diabetes in regular life and also on the racetrack.
~ Charlie Kimball
I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
~ Dak Prescott
All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
~ Nathan Lane
My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.
~ Ivanka Trump
I know there's pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he's had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you've tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.
~ Miesha Tate